Preeminent among the magazine world's kingmaking power lists is Vanity Fair's New Establishment, which appears in the October issue — on newsstands in L.A. and New York today, but not in the Bay Area for another six days. Silicon Valley gets similar short shrift: The names who make it there are predictable bigs like…
Our solicitation for details on media holiday parties has produced some great responses, keep 'em coming. A particularly choice tip offers the scoop on MTV Networks' bash:
On October 27, Dealbreaker.com moved on the rumor that "the new head of MTV [Ed.—as in the channel] will be Mika Salmi, who is currently the CEO of Atom Entertainment (a recent MTV acquisition)." So confident were they that 'breaker-in-Chief Elizabeth Spiers promised, if the rumor proved false, to eat her blog.…
DealBreaker mongers the rumor that the new head of MTV will be the Teutonically envisaged Mika Salmi, to be announced Monday. Salmi comes to MTV by way of his company AtomFilms, which was recently acquired by MTV. He has considerable music-industry experience as well, and is apparently a big Nine Inch Nails fan.
